Philip Hands wrote: > BTW Any chance of installing the latest rsync on va ? The anonymous rsync > stuff works well for me, and it would save the encryption overhead of using > rsync over ssh. > Some background: the latest rsync allows anonymous connections. It also allows you to restrict who can connect anonymously.
I've discussed this with Jason and he's against it. He feels that it will be too much administrative overhead to keep a list of acceptable mirrors. The reason we would want to set up restrictions is to prevent just anyone from mirroring from the primary Debian sites (va and master. It would be a good idea to minimize the net load from mirroring so they can be used for other tasks). Given the large number of mirrors (ftp and www) it would be a good idea if we set up a more formal mirroring policy. My proposal would be to switch to anon rsync on master which is restricted to 3 primary ftp and web mirrors (2 in the US and 1 in Europe for both ftp and web). All other mirrors would have to use one of the primary mirrors. As quite a number of people are currently using rsync to mirror, is it really worth it to make a change? Even if we send messages to -devel beforehand I'm sure a number of mirrors will break for a while. Additionally, links to va and master have been quite stable for the last few months so net load has been less of a problem. If anything, the primary reason for setting up anon rsync would be so we can get rid of most of the mirror accounts from master. This is a good idea from both security and administrative points of view. Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
